Employment – Wage Act – Common-law remedies

Where (1) a plaintiff, alleging that the defendant company failed to pay certain sales commissions that he earned as a sales representative, has brought a Massachusetts Wage Act claim as well as common-law claims for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, promissory estoppel, ‘unjust enrichment/quantum meruit’ and misrepresentation and (2) the defendant has moved to dismiss the common-law claims, those claims are not “superseded” by the Wage Act, so the motion to dismiss must be denied.